Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball and O. F. M. Ward (1904) (14783808333)

Identifier: parisitsstorybyt00okey (find matches)
Title: Paris and its story, by T. Okey; illustrated by Katherine Kimball & O. F. M. Ward
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Okey, Thomas, 1852-1935
Subjects: Art
Publisher: London : J. M. Dent & co. New York, The Macmillan co.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive



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)a«rl. L i^ ^^^VV. PETITE GALERIE OF THE LOUVRE. to concede liberty of conscience to the Protestants and torestore their sequestered estates and offices. After twoyears of agony of mind and remorse, Charles IX. lay dyingof consumption, abandoned by all save his faithful Huguenotnurse. The blood flowing from his nostrils seemed a tokenof Gods wrath ; and moaning Ah ! ma mie, what blood-shed ! what murders! I am lost! I am lost ! the poorcrowned wretch passed to his account. He had not yetreached his twenty-fourth year.
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La -oilF.r„/.m Lc R-o/ tlcf,.,.PLAN OF PARIS WHEN BESIEGED BY HENRV IV. IN i!90. yli ij-^o r^ CHAPTER XIII HENRY III. THE LEAGUE SIEGE OF PARIS BY HENRY IV. HIS CONVERSION, REIGN AND ASSASSINATION When the third of Catherines sons, having resigned thesovereignty of Poland, was being consecrated at Rheims, thecrown is said to have twice slipped from his head, theinsentient diadem itself shrinking in horror from the browof a prince destined to pollute it with deeper shame.Treacherous and bloody, Henry mingled grovelling pietywith debauchery, and made of the court a veritable Alsatia,where paid assassins who stabbed from behind and mignonswho struck, to the face, were part of the train of everyprince. The kings mignons^ with their insolent bearing,their extravagant and effeminate dress, their hair powderedand curled, their neck ruffles so broad that their headsresembled the head of John the Baptist on a charger,—gambling, blaspheming swashbucklers—were hateful alike toHuguenot and